Hillsboro recorder., 1887-12-22
SOUTHERN BRIEFLETS.
RE1DABLE ITEMS CAREFULLY
REVISED fUR BUSY PEOPLE.
improvements and New Raiir roads Project"
ed-ReiiRi0as, Social, nnd Temperance
Items-Fires, Dsnths. Marriages &c

SUuV stOlcu.
Miss Mullen, of Parkersburgh, W. Va,
shot and killed a burglar who was crawl
ing through her window.
Prof. II. II. Didwiddie, chairman of
the Faculty Of the State Agricultural Col,
lcge at Bryan, Texas, died recently, aged
10 years. ......s..-.... .....--- LIS.
George Lloyd, alleged to be despers'
do and who had killed five men, was
himself killed by posse from Sanford,
Fla, which had been hunting him In a
swamp.
Rev. H. ID. ID. Stmtton has resigned
the pastorate of the Central Baptist
church in Atlanta, Ca, and accepted
call to the Baptist church in Marion, Ala
bama.
At an election held by the Elbert Light
Infantry for lieutenant-c colonel to COM
mand the 9th Georgia battalion, Capt.
Will F. Jones, of Elberton, received the
whole vote cast, forty-one.
A big fire at the South Tredegar roll
ing mill in Chattanooga, Tenn, destroyed
more thBn half of the nail department,
involving loss of SEQ, 700. The mill is.
owned by st. Louis parties.
While little child of Mr.. Quafles, Of
Ridge Springs, S. c., was playing around
the wash tub he picked up can Of con-
centrated lye and swallowed quantity
of the deadly fluid, from the effects of
which he died.
The committee of inquiry appointed
by the Northern and Southern assemblies
Of the Presbyterian Church will begin its
work Of looking into the question of the
organic union of the two bodies The
session is strictly private.
The Rev. L. Hanscombe, one of the
sh'ast Methodist clergymen in the East
Name Conference, has accepted a call to
Birmingham, Ala. He was brave Fed
eral soldier during the War, and is men,
Der of the list Maine Cavalry Association.
4 meeting of the shareholders of the
Brunswick & Albany Railway was held
At Frankfort. Seventeen persons, repre-
senting 1G2, 400 shares, were present. It
was unanimously resolved to sell the line
to the Savannah & Florida company.
f. W. Marshall, one of the most prom
linent merchants of South Carolina, died,
aged 6s years. He was a native of Col
1mbia and did business there until the
death of his father, when he went to
Charleston where he lived about thirty
years.
Fire has broken out in the coal mines
Of the Roane Iron Company at lockwood,
Tenn The cause Of the fire is unknown,
but is supposed 10 be the result of spon-
taneous combustion. The damage done
by the fire has already reached several
thousand dollars, and the flames are grow
ing fiercer.
Frank Moss an extensive cattle dealer
Of Tazewcll county, Va, murdered col
Ored mail carrier on the route TO Burk's
Garden. Moss had just returned from
the Eastern markets. where he had sold q
large lot of cattle, and was crazy from a
recent spree. He has been placed in the
lunatic asylum.
Deputy Collector J. W. Alexander
made raid into Pickens county, Ca,
and seized three IS gallon and one 100
copper. stills. 1000 gallons Of beer and
$50 gallons of singlings. All the stills
we're under the ground, near Jasper.
These four extensive distilleries were sit
uated in a radius of one mile, and have
been in operation for four or five years.
Charles Breitz, blacksmith boarding
n the Owen house, in YorkyiIle, S. C.,
committed suicide while under the inhu
ence Of whiskey, by jumping from win
dow in the third story 10 the payemen
below. lie was injured internally ant
died. Brcitz belonged to Salem, n. C..
waS about twenty eight years old and I'm
married
During the last prohibition campaign
Doughcrty HutChins. Mick Mitchell
Charlie Harper and Jack Huggins wer
anti. i.prohibiiionists, while Rev. DIR. Kent
their pastor in the Congregational churcI
In Atlanta, Ga., and majority Of tn
members were enthusiastic espousers Q
the other side. On the report Of Churc
committee the anti-pOhibitionists wei
bounced.
A cable from London announces thu
/ the United States Rolling Stock Compau
$ has decided To increase its capital stoC
| from 5000, 900 10 $1,000. 900. and
c build at Admission. Ala, large car work
}. including a rolling mill and .foundr'
J. aud capable Of turning out twenty cars
c day. The works will employ 1000 mel
c and will disbursc $1,000 day for lab,
Il and material.
= The body nf Andrew Edwards, an 81
= negro 20 years ot age, was discovered
= DAY or two ago suspended from the lin
IS Of tree few miles from Minden, l.
i The matter was investigated. and 1t "
found the old man was lynched by m
Of his own color. without the slightt
cause other than superstition. The o
IN man was considered voudoo, and up
ie flimsy pretcxts he was lynchcd.
+ Charles Parker son Of Dr. J. ".
7, Parker, Of Somerset, Ky, was fatally
IL iured near Chattanooga. Tenn. lie v
u going north on freight train on
g Cincinnati southern Road and "A
NJ train was passing under the East r,
y nessec. Virginia & Georgia Railrc
;" bridge he was struck on the left side
'f the head by one If the bridge timl,
~ and his skull fractured.
In consanttrnre nj somn ;ttv.disnn